Sen (Ky) Mitch McConnell is seizing. This is the second event. Brain tumor? Maybe. Or just brain haywire from old age. You can bet everyone involved knows about it and they’re all wondering what to do but the reality is not much. He’s the right age and he “looks” terrible. His lifetime of obstructing anything that doesn’t benefit Republicans coming out from of the Senate is over. 

A couple of days ago a 21-year-old pregnant black female shot by a cop in Columbus. This is STILL happening routinely, and it’s seemingly centered pretty much in the Midwest. You would think this kind of trauma would have stopped long ago, especially after the George Floyd disaster, but it hasn’t even slowed down. 

These events almost follow a script. This one is a classic. Young female accused of shoplifting takes refuge in her car, cops demand she get out of the car eight times, she refuses. She then engages the car’s transmission and is said to aim the car at a cop, following which she’s shot dead. 

Minutes later, a solemn attorney describes a completely alternative episode and demands “answers”, but not just any answers. Answers that point toward a blame. The cop is benched, and a long investigation follows where any and all evidence is interpreted differently by all involved. Then the cop loses his job, and the city pays a bundle to the family of the injured party. 

There are several important things to take away from this and most of the other similar episodes. 

1.  Any time anyone, anywhere sneezes, bystanders and even the cops take multiple videos of all of it. These videos depict the raw nuts and bolts of the event but never the sensations, emotions, sentiments, and soul surrounding the event. The raw artwork can usually be interpreted into eternity by virtually anyone, including CNN and Fox. Continuing episodes suggest that graphic portrayals of potentially homicidal events are not effective in any way other than generating cash here and there.

2.  If a cop in a street situation orders you to do something and you refuse, the chances of you getting shot somewhere along the line begin to appear on the screen. You gain nothing and start accepting risk.

3.  If some action by you is interpreted by a police officer as a danger to his or her person, the chances of you getting shot fly off the top of the screen. It should be patently obvious by now that cops will shoot first and ask questions later if they feel themselves in danger. 

If you happen to be a person of color, look at the recent (last few years) of police shootings. It should be obvious that police will bust a black person for nonsense triviata and then shoot them when the victim argues about it. It hasn’t stopped and it isn’t stopping, even in the face of “black matters matter”. 

It’s a dangerous world. Be careful out there.

DC